Before I became a senior editor with Bloomberg Financial News where my work revolved around business and economic issues, I spent years writing about the environment. This background has given me a rather interesting focus — an ability to see some important similarities in the ways the natural world and the world of economics operate. [...]
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Blackstone's chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, a big GOP supporter, emphasized his choice to back Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney this week was a personal decision. "First of all, this is a personal choice and a corporate persp... Read Post
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